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doc: Inconsistent parentheses in "(guile) sxml-match"

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
Cc: 30920-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30920: doc: Inconsistent parentheses in "(guile) sxml-match"
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:54:15 +0100

Hi Arun,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net> skribis:

> While working on this patch, I found that two of the code snippets don't
> work. They work neither with square brackets nor with round
> brackets. The two snippets are
>
> * The first snippet in the "Matching the Unmatched Attributes" subsection
>
> @lisp
> (sxml-match '(a (@@ (z 1) (y 2) (x 3)) 4 5 6)
>   ((a (@@ (y ,www) . ,qqq) ,t ,u ,v)
>    (list www qqq t u v)))
> @end lisp
>
> * The snippet in the "Default Values in Attribute Patterns" subsection
>
> @lisp
> (sxml-match '(e 3 4 5)
>   ((e (@@ (z (,d 1))) ,a ,b ,c) (list d a b c)))
> @end lisp
>
> These snippets fail to evaluate. Could you check?

I can confirm.  Would be worth fixing.

> From 6e31e3fe1fd2b537d4a02dbcfccbb03e0d20e804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 01:45:32 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Replace square brackets with round brackets.
>
> * doc/ref/sxml-match.texi: Replace all square brackets with round
> brackets in order to be consistent with the rest of the documentation.

Applied, thanks!

Ludo’.

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